Early experience effects on adaptive behavior: Theory revisited

Sackett, Gene P.; Novak, Matthew F. S. X.; Kroeker, Rose

doi:10.1002/(sici)1098-2779(1999)5:1<30::aid-mrdd4>3.0.co;2-j

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“…These results, in line with enrichment experiments on other higher vertebrates (Gomez-Pinilla et al 1998;Sacett et al 1999;Allen et al 2003), reveal that it is possible to alter cod behaviour by manipulating the rearing environment. Cod in experiment 1, reared in conditions that most closely resemble a plain hatchery tank, were found to behave poorly across all of the behavioural assays.…”

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Environmental variability in the early rearing environment generates behaviourally flexible cod: implications for rehabilitating wild populations

2005

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The release of hatchery-reared fishes for restoring threatened and endangered populations is one of the most controversial issues in applied ecology. A central issue has been to determine whether releases cause extinction of local wild populations. This may arise either through domesticated or non-local fishes hybridizing with wild fishes, or through inappropriate behavioural interactions; for example, many hatchery fishes show exaggerated aggressive and competitive behaviour and out-compete wild counterparts. The impact of the impoverished hatchery environment in shaping behaviour is only now receiving attention. Attempts to counteract hatchery-related behavioural deficiencies have utilized intensive training programmes shortly before the fishes are released. However, we show here that simple exposure to variable spatial and foraging cues in the standard hatchery environment generates fishes with enhanced behavioural traits that are probably associated with improved survival in the wild. It appears that fishes need to experience a varying and changeable environment to learn and develop flexible behaviour. Using variable hatchery rearing environments to generate suitable phenotypes in combination with a knowledge of appropriate local genotypes, rehabilitation of wild fishes is likely to succeed, where to date it has largely failed.

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Environmental variability in the early rearing environment generates behaviourally flexible cod: implications for rehabilitating wild populations

2005

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“…The finding that even routine skills, such as nest building or mothering behavior, are acquired through social learning (see [55], for a review). A major effect of cultural and educational differences on brain structure in apes and rodents [96], just as in humans [97]. many species the skills acquired socially may have a content bias toward the social domain.…”

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Explaining brain size variation: from social to cultural brain

Schaik

Isler

Burkart

2012

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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“…Animals can improve their foraging ability and refine their social behaviour by learning from previous experiences (Pitcher et al 1982, Suboski 1989, Sackett et al 1999, Laland & Janik 2006. Animal development and the evolution of behaviour patterns, morphology and life-history traits are also strongly influenced by the environment (Magurran 2005).…”

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Enrichment promotes learning in fish

Strand¹,

Utne‐Palm²,

Jakobsen³

et al. 2010

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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Captive birds and mammals reared in enriched rearing environments have been shown to behave more flexibly compared to animals reared in impoverished or plain environments. Recent evidence has shown that this is also true for fish; enrichment promotes faster recovery after a stressful experience, a higher propensity for exploration of novel areas and the development of more sophisticated social behaviour. Here we report how enrichment influences social learning in juvenile cod Gadus morhua that were reared in either spatially enriched or plain tanks. Naïve juvenile cod were allowed to repeatedly observe experienced tutors as they foraged on gammarid or mysid prey, or control tutors that acted as social stimuli but did not forage. The naïve fish then received a mixture of mysid and gammarid prey. Enriched-reared fish improved their ability to consume live prey in the presence of foraging tutors, but plain-reared fish did not. Although gammarids were consumed more often and more quickly than mysids, both among tutors and naïve fish, social learning from tutors demonstrating mysid hunting and consumption had its greatest effect on social learning in the enriched fish.

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Early experience effects on adaptive behavior: Theory revisited

Cited by 31 publications

References 47 publications

Environmental variability in the early rearing environment generates behaviourally flexible cod: implications for rehabilitating wild populations

Environmental variability in the early rearing environment generates behaviourally flexible cod: implications for rehabilitating wild populations

Explaining brain size variation: from social to cultural brain

Enrichment promotes learning in fish

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